FAIRFAX, Va. – Road trips to Florida, North Carolina, Philadelphia and the Bronx highlight the 2015 George Mason baseball schedule as the Patriots set out to defend their Atlantic 10 Conference tournament championship.
The Patriots will once again head south to begin the season, this time traveling to Port Charlotte, FL for three games in the Snowbird Classic. Mason opens 2015 against Big 10 member Ohio State on February 13 and will also play Iowa on the 15th. Both teams finished in a regular season tie for seventh in the conference last season. Sandwiched in-between is a contest with Kansas State on the 14th.
Following the trip to Port Charlotte, Mason will travel Wilmington, NC from February 20-22 for games against Wake Forest, UNCW and Western Carolina. The final game of the season-opening road swing will be the first of a home-and-home with Longwood in Farmville,Va., who the Patriots defeated twice last season.
The Green and Gold play 11 of the next 12 games at Spuhler Field in Fairfax, hosting series’ against Cornell, New York Tech and Manhattan with single game contests against Yale and the first of another home-and-home with James Madison.
The first Atlantic 10 series of the season will take place in Richmond, Va. against the Richmond Spiders beginning on March 20, a team the Patriots did not play in their inaugural season in the conference. The Spiders ended last season with a conference record of 13-12 and the fifth seed in the A-10 tournament.
Proceeding the series in Richmond, Mason hosts back-to-back games against Brown followed by a series vs. Saint Joseph’s and the first of two games this season against Georgetown to close out the month of March.
April sees the Patriots travel to play series’ with Fordham and VCU while hosting Canisius College and George Washington on separate weekends. Single-game home contests include matchups with Mount St. Mary’s, Towson, Maine and UMBC.
The month of May opens with a series in Fairfax against A-10 newcomer Davidson, which finished 2014 29-19 overall, and 17-8 in the Southern Conference. The Patriots travel to Philadelphia on the eighth for a series with La Salle before wrapping up the regular season at home in a series against UMass.
The 2015 Atlantic 10 Tournament will be hosted by George Washington in Arlington, Va. from May 20-23.
